Focused on Growing Your Agribusiness

After more than a century of doing business, one thing is clear: We don’t treat our customers like there’s no tomorrow. We strive to keep them for generations — by utilizing the latest technology, expanding our offerings, and providing only the highest quality products and services.

The Arthur Companies operates diverse agribusinesses, including grain elevators, a birdseed company and a wholesale fertilizer company.

"We continually innovate to help growers meet the challenges of global agriculture."

Brooks Burgum
CEO

Serving Past, Present and Future Generations

When J.A. and Jessamine Burgum began managing the Arthur Farmers Elevator in 1906, their customers delivered grain by horse and wagon. Harvesting a cash crop of wheat on a 160-acre homestead took weeks.

Today that same land is harvested in hours.

While agriculture has changed dramatically, The Arthur Companies still manages our family business with the same focus on pioneering innovation and responding to our customers’ needs.

The strong management that stabilized a struggling elevator a century ago and brought electricity to Arthur with the installation of an electric generating plant also helped farmers survive the Depression by offering credit and sharecropping arrangements.

We built North Dakota’s first retail bulk fertilizer business and the state’s first anhydrous plant. That same pioneering spirit drives our focus and commitment to customers today.

Our Mission

To enable our customers to prosper by providing superior products, services and markets while benefiting the communities we serve and safeguarding our environment.

Specialty Crops

The Arthur Companies is an originator of specialty crops. We purchase flax, barley, sunflowers and canola. Please contact your local Arthur Companies Grain Merchandiser for more details.

We also contract hi-oleic sunflowers in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota for various delivery periods. For more information please contact Joe Moore at (701) 967-2211 or [email protected].

The Arthur Companies also partners with Anchor Ingredients, a specialty crops buyer and processor that sources and supplies ingredients to the food and pet food industries. Types of commodities purchased by Anchor Ingredients include field peas (green and yellow), flaxseed, barley, oats, chickpeas, lentils and organic grains.